HTTP Toolkit on Mythryl: “Interested in how rate limiting can work to throttle HTTP clients…”

Interested in how rate limiting can work to throttle HTTP clients effectively? Tony Finch has written some fascinating thoughts about the (relatively) new HTTP standard Rate Limit Header: dotat.at/@/2026-01-13...

dotat.atHTTP RateLimit headers – Tony FinchThere is an IETF draft that aims to standardize RateLimit header fields for HTTP. A RateLimit header in a successful response can inform a client when it might expect to be throttled, so it can avoid 429 Too Many Requests errors. Servers can also include RateLimit headers in a 429 response to make the error more informative.

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